Samuel's Gallery

01/09/2017

A doubling of her rent is forcing out Berkeley’s beloved homegrown artist, a woman so revered she was honored by a city proclamation five years ago. Unable to find anything affordable, she is leaving the city where she attended public schools, up through Berkeley High, class of 1963, on her way to a...

11/30/2016

09/09/2016

At the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, one gallery called "Power of Place" will explore areas in the U.S. with a distinct African-American identity. Margaret Brennan visits one of those places, Oak Bluffs, a small New England town on the island of Martha's Vi...

09/03/2016

Incredibly relevant today.

In the historic 1965 "Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?" debate, author James Baldwin spars with conservative William F. Buckley

08/31/2016

08/12/2016

Art Kane took the most amazing photograph in jazz history in August 1958

07/17/2016

After settling in the United States, Matzeliger worked for several years to learn English. As a dark-skinned man, his professional options were limited, and he struggled to make a living in Philadelphia. In 1877, Matzeliger moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, to seek work in the town's rapidly growin

07/08/2016

Samuel summarized the mission of his gallery, stating: “Images that positively reflect African Americans, and our heritage, of what we are, who we are, and what we can be, will nourish and sustain us. Art is a place where we can tell our own story, in the images of our own choosing.”

Specializing in African-American art since 1983.

07/02/2016

On November 20, 1948, the life of African-American, Amy Mallard, changed forever. She watched as a mob of twenty armed white men shot and killed her husband, Robert Mallard. At first the incident drew very little attention until Mallard’s wife began speaking out; the case soon became national news.…

06/30/2016

Do you remember the painting Sugar Shack on the sitcom “Good Times?” If you were like most children growing up during that time, you might have thought J.J (Jimmie Walker) had painted it. No, it was not the work of Jimmie Walker. But it was the work of an African-American man named “ Barnes.”